This was tested by GandaPestile and Sophie. Thanks!
It's been over 2 years since I've constructed a mini, but I was inspired by the ones that Aaron's been putting out recently (which you can find over at https://crosshare.org/illogicaljoker). It seems like a good size of puzz - short enough to approachable, but including enough stuff for me to (hopefully) find some interesting parses.
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Way beyond my abilities or lack thereof as a solver and anything I could imagine in construction, sorry for beating a dead horse and being so so so far beneath you geniuses
Oliver Hardy 1:42 · about 1 year ago
Don't worry; it was easy beyond my abilities!
Oliver Hardy 1:42 · about 1 year ago
I made no chance!
5A "checked", "inspired" I suppose are container indicators, yet I have never seen them in published cryptics. Please explain.
Inspired is an annoying one, in that there are valid ways to interpret it as both a container indicator and an insertion indicator.
Inspire could be "inhale" (taking something in), or it could be to "fill something [with the urge to]" (going into something).
Here I'm using checked as an insertion indicator; with the meaning of 'to hinder' (meaning 3 in Chambers or 2b on Merriam Webster's online dictionary), and the parse "AA, B checked" to be equivalent to "B check AA".
These double insertion/container clues (I've seen them referred to as 'turduckens') can be hard to spot/parse at the best of times, hopefully it didn't spoil the rest of the solve for you
I'm wondering now if you could've managed a grid where 4A also started with an A ;) That said, I liked 4A and got a kick out of "Uganda's situation" in 3D and "right to focus on questioning" in 2D.
I saw the chance for it, and deliberately didn't in case people mistakenly assumed the gimmick I was going for (and I was really happy with most of the clues).
Hope all is well
Oliver Hardy 1:42 · about 1 year ago
Thanks for your reply. You are obviously several leagues above me so I'll graciously surrender.